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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30, 31 and 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Laura see Buddy as he is coming out of the shower?
(a) Hard and strong and sexy.
(b) As getting a little flabby.
(c) As a man past his prime.
(d) As handsome as the day they met.

2. What doesn't Essie miss?
(a) The smell of alcohol.
(b) The gangs on the streets.
(c) The screams and sirens in Harlem.
(d) The drugs on the streets.

3. What might be a theme of this story symbolically portrayed in the final lines of this chapter?
(a) That one should suspect people who start churches without a license.
(b) That wine and church do not mix.
(c) That a bad motive can turn out positively.
(d) The self-fueling obsession with pleasure can prevent awareness of opportunities for spiritual growth.

4. Who is evicted to make room for the church?
(a) Some men moved in from the bowery.
(b) Some drifters.
(c) Some rejects from Blecker Street.
(d) A Southern family.

5. About what does Laura wonder as she is putting her purse away?
(a) If Buddy is going to leave her.
(b) Why the music in the church has stopped.
(c) Why Essie still has such a ragged coat.
(d) Why it's impossible for a man to be a good man even when he's being treated like a good man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seems smitten with Marietta?

2. What does Laura say Essie can provide?

3. Upon what does Marietta muse?

4. What does Essie want to discuss with Laura?

5. Who is the woman that Laura calls a "bitch"?

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